Simple but Effective. Part 1.

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Recovery, it’s the easiest performance enhancing thing you can do. For a lot of athletes it’s the hardest discipline. “Shouldn’t I be doing more volume?” “Shouldn’t I be doing more intensity?” I’ve never had an athlete ask “Shouldn’t I be doing more recovery?” I’ve told more than a couple of my athletes that they would … Read more

Supplemental Gym Work

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Structural Integrity. Durability issues. Chronic injuries from imbalances. Specialization comes at a cost. Often that cost is whole body health. That’s why gym work is important for endurance athletes, especially cyclists who spend most of their training time pedaling a machine designed for efficient, non-weight bearing locomotion. If you have never done any kind of … Read more

Time.

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A close friend of mine and I have been having a discussion on “Time”. Wasting Time. Making Time. Having the patience to give something or someone Time. The gift of Time. The finite resource of Time. I capitalize it because Time is important. And, how you spend your Time is important. My Time these past … Read more

76th Annual Redmond Derby Days Criterium

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    This Saturday marks the 76th Annual Redmond Derby Days Criterium. This year we will be handing out over $10,000 in cash plus some cool merchandise from Castelli Cycling. As always we will have podium presentations with champion jerseys and champagne to spray for the winner’s of every category. Pre-registration can be found here: http://redmondderbydays.com/criterium … Read more

Local Bike Racing – It Matters

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I did a bike race yesterday with Chloe Dygert. She beat me. And I’m good with that because she’s The World Champion. And I’m not. Hats off to the officiating crew for giving the green light to Chloe wearing her full World Champion kit in the race yesterday. It was very cool seeing the World … Read more

What Is the Point? What Do You Have to Prove?

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So this happened today. 6.5 months after breaking my pelvis, 4 ribs and puncturing a lung in the last race I did I pinned a number on and rolled off the line with 60 other racers for 120 km P1-2 road race on the Olympic Peninsula. I didn’t win. I didn’t place. And I didn’t … Read more

Reward

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    Over the weekend one of the athletes that I coach won a bike race. Now I am pretty psyched when any of my athletes does well but in this case I was (and still am) super psyched. Emily Alexander won the Category 4 Women’s Race at The Ridge Circuit Race. Emily has come … Read more

Goodbye 2015. Hello 2016.

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I haven’t done a “Year in Review” before because, well, I never really thought much about it and quite frankly I wasn’t quite sure that it was warranted. 2015 was different. At first glance, maybe not the best. I busted myself up pretty well. Again. In fact less than 1 year after busting myself up … Read more